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When Douglass describes the effects of slavery on Mistress Hugh he says, “Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities. Under its influence, the tender heart became stone” (Douglass 16). The mistress was once a caring and considerate person but after owning a slave and seeing how her husband treated Douglass, she too began to mimic his brutal ways. This shows even the purest of people are turned evil by witnessing how slaves were treated. Greed and the desire to follow the ways of others caused cruelty of others.

“Racism is a refuge for the ignorant, it seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head on and stamped out.”-Pierre Berton. In the novel the wednesday wars by Gary D. Schmidt there are two characters named Mrs.Bigio and Mai Thi. Mrs. Bigio dislikes Mai Thi because Mai Thi is from Vietnam and a man from Vietnam killed her husband. Mrs.Bigio is a racist women and should not treat a little girl like that Mai Thi doesn 't deserve this!

It’s the kind of violence you only read or see in fiction, and to here described as truth makes me sick to my stomach. Thompson knew that being this descriptive would help him make his point and provide persuasive evidence that the Southern slave system was morally wrong. Thompson makes it impossible to even begin to defend the slave owners and supporters of this system. My final example is when Thompson’s sister was sold to a new, crueler master, and upon seeing her mother for the first time since she was sold, wept. “As soon as my sister saw our mother, she ran to her and fell upon her neck, but was unable to speak a word.

Her teacher hates Adolf Hitler because he oppresses the Jews but at the same time she tramples the African Americans without reason. Scout starts to grasp that in a way Maycomb is just like Germany, because blacks are discriminated just because of the color of their skin. Although Miss Gates is not wrong for thinking persecution is terrible Scout sees what she still does the same wrong things to the people of color. Realizing malicious ideals like racial prejudice are the foundation to being shaped as a

Racism, Poverty, and Domestic Violence in 1933 Racism, Poverty, and Domestic violence is an example of the book To Kill a Mockingbird. Racism is a way of discrimination between different colored people. In this book the person that represents racism Aunt Alexandra. She discriminates Calpurnia do to her skin color, and race. Poverty is to be very poor.

His experiences consist of violence upon a fellow slave or upon himself. The acts of cruelty break down the slaves bodily and mentally, having no respect for human life. An example of this cruelty was when the slaveholders abandoned Douglass’ grandmother and “made her welcome to the privilege of supporting herself… in perfect loneliness; thus virtually turning her out to die!” (Douglass 48) Douglass uses these experiences as the logical basis for his argument, being that slavery is unjustified acts of hatred and dehumanization.

This novel was an emotional read because of the unfair killing of Jefferson, but it was also a great learning experience because it teaches the reader to try and help others during difficult times. During the time that this event took place there was still racial discrimination, therefore Jefferson was not given a fair trial. He did steal the money, but he did not kill the people in the store. Jefferson knew that stealing was wrong, but he was poor and saw that no one was around to say anything so he took it. Due to this wrong decision he believes that he is a hog who deserves to die.

Or we be chillin’ in front of the store, [they] get out checking everybody” (Brunson 2007:84). Experiences such as these have led to a domino effect in the African-American community, where if one person has a negative personal experience with the police it will be shared with friends and family and they will also have disdain for law enforcement. To them, the police do not see high hopes for African Americans. “If an African American had fancy clothes or had a lot of money their first thought would not be that this person worked hard but more along the lines of this person has been selling drugs” (Brunson 2007:85). Also, the police officers are seen as crooked by African Americans because they have been known as lawbreakers instead of law-enforcers (Brunson 2007:85).

The Effects of Racism in To Kill a Mocking Bird As illustrated in the novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee, racism effects the way that people treat others and victimizes them depending on their skin color that can lead to false accusations, irrationality, and poverties. As the town of Maycomb already has hardships, racism makes it harder for the people there to live and function correctly. Three main characters in this writing that are negatively affected by racism are Tom Robinson, Atticus, and Lula. The most obvious victim of racism in this story is Tom Robinson. He is a black hardworking man that is falsely accused of raping Mayella Ewell, Bob Ewell’s daughter.

They are in fact so undesirable that Black Men are reluctant at best to marry such a women; could we even blame them for this mass divorce or abandonment of their women and their natural families. Black Women are more abrasive, confrontational, antagonistic, less caring, and motherly; they are in fact less lady like in every regard; Take one example of Black Women 's Failure to desirability, they have adopted a culture and a mentality to adorn weaves. (If you don 't know, a weave is human hair maid into a wig). This would on the surface appear mundane; however they invariably choose the hair of the Caucasian as the material. Black women do this because they emulate and desire ----; furthermore they degrade their own “natural beauty”, what Black Men should be most attracted to, causing a knock-on effect; As women are inferior to men, black women are inferior to white women.

Also, “The poisonous relationship between black men and police forces is the key to why we never really get past race.”(McWhorter) Past relationships between blacks and law enforcement are still the same today, poisonous and discriminatory. This further illustrates how the War on Drugs is affected black lives, stating how it is causing violence between blacks and police. All of this demonstrates how we are still paying the bill, because there is still a War on Drugs going on, which affects the relations between blacks and the

The narrator tries to kill his black cat with an axe and his wife intervenes and offsets his thoughts and he accidently kills her. In both the stories the narrators killed someone they loved and although they loved them they don’t feel bad about hiding the body successfully as they thought. In Poe’s other story, The Cask of Amontillado, the genre is also one of horror. The narrator in this story also displays a psychotic personality as he happily tells the story of a murder he committed. However, the narrator didn’t love the man named Fortunato that he killed and even had a history with him.

Another element in this novel is Melinda’s inner conflict, man vs. self. What Melinda has been through greatly affected her everyday life. She struggles with depression, dislikes her appearance, and feels ashamed of herself for something that isn 't her fault: “I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else...even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me” (Anderson 51). Andy Evans, the senior who raped her, made her feel worthless. This situation is much like the one in the novel The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.

Grace Merriweather, and Bob Ewell. Aunt Alexandra is one character that is prejudice against African Americans by not liking Calpurnia taking care of Jem and Scout. Aunt Alexandra is also racist against people like the Cunninghams because they are in a lower-class than the Finch’s. Mrs. Merriweather is another character that also does not agree with what Atticus is doing for Tom which leads to her showing behaviors that are prejudice against Tom for being African American. Also, by showing disrespect to her servants, Mrs. Merriweather shows people that she is racist.

Unfortunately, in the small town of Maycomb County, racism wins out as an African American man named Tom Robinson is falsely accused of raping a woman and is sentenced to death. This may now seem like an anomaly, but this is in fact something that happens in the present day. Which is why it was intentional, that Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird demonstrates the theme: Progress-real